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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

{Ling honey}, a sort of wild honey, made from the flowers of
the heather. --Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Note: The fish is also called an {eelpout} or {ling}, and is
allied to the codfish. The {Lota vulgaris} is a common
European species. An American species ({L. maculosa})
is found in New England, the Great Lakes, and farther
north.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of
country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the
blasted heath. --Milton

{Heath cock} (Zo["o]l.), the blackcock. See {Heath grouse}
(below).

{Heath grass} (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus
{Triodia} ({T. decumbens}), growing on dry heaths.

{Heath grouse}, or {Heath game} (Zo["o]l.), a European grouse
({Tetrao tetrix}), which inhabits heats; -- called also
{black game}, {black grouse}, {heath poult}, {heath fowl},
{moor fowl}. The male is called, {heath cock}, and
{blackcock}; the female, {heath hen}, and {gray hen}.

{Heath hen}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Heath grouse} (above).

{Heath pea} (bot.), a species of bitter vetch ({Lathyris
macrorhizus}), the tubers of which are eaten, and in
Scotland are used to flavor whisky.

{Heath throstle} (Zo["o]l.), a European thrush which
frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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